You've been checked out since your mom handed you her hand-me-down red bottoms to match the new sleeveless dress that definitely costed more than necessary. Nodding and offering fake smiles to all 254 filthy rich guests. One of which was a young man she insisted on setting you up with who was all too full of himself. Nothing he said was an ounce of interesting and kind of misogynistic if you were actually paying attention.

She kept urging you to stand next to him and look pretty. Find any excuse to touch him on the arm. Laugh at all his stupid jokes. Keep your chin up and walk by him as if you were already together.

In reality, you just wanted to punch him in his perfect teeth.

The longer the event went on, you could barely hold a feigned interested look anymore. So, you excused yourself to the ladies room.

You leaned on the sink and stared in the mirror. Then stepped back to stare at the dress. It's beautiful and the color was perfect on your skin, but you started to wonder if it was too tight. Like maybe it hugged all the wrong places. You turned to the side and started harder but before you could make a harsher judgment on yourself, the door opened.

You turned around, thinking it was your mom, but once you registered who it was, you smiled all big and gasped excitedly.

"Kate!"

Kate looked up when she heard her name called out and you were already jumping into her arms. Arms wrapped around her neck. Chest pressed against hers. That perfume you've been going on and on about since you were kids filling her personal space. Her thumb grazed that faded scar along your spine that you got from falling five feet from your childhood treehouse.

It's been a while since you last saw each other. You want to convince yourself it was just the way life goes but you knew it was your mom's doing. She wasn't particularly fond of Kate but you wonder if that started before or after she caught you two "playing house" in middle school. And she still had the nerve to kiss up to her mom.

You backed up and held her hands, still excited.

"I didn't think I'd see you here," you chimed before getting a good look at her outfit. "Nice suit."

"Oh, uh," she cleared her throat and chuckled nervously. "Thanks. It's good to see you again, too."

"Right?! Before we get into all that catching up stuff, I need your opinion real quick."

She tore her eyes from your cleavage the second you let her hands go. "Yeah? Of course, um- whatever you need."

You did a slow twirl and did a 3/4's pose. Your bare back and ass facing her. "This dress doesn't look weird on me, right?"

Kate was convinced she felt her heart stop beating. She couldn't form a response fast enough as she gawked but you took it as something unspoken between best friends.

"Kate," you said now facing her from the front and giggling at her response.

"It's great," she said. "Great. And breathtaking," she added as she actually started to lose her breath.